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History's disquiet : modernity, cultural practice, and the question of everyday life /
America's preeminent intellectual historian of modern Japan inaugurates a challenging debate on the arbitrary cultural divisions of our world, and in the process sheds light on the troubling academic enterprise called ""area studies."" This is one of the first works to explo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | America's preeminent intellectual historian of modern Japan inaugurates a challenging debate on the arbitrary cultural divisions of our world, and in the process sheds light on the troubling academic enterprise called ""area studies."" This is one of the first works to explore on equal footing the European and Japanese conceptions of modernity -- as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231505124 9780231505123 1282871900 9781282871908 9786612871900 6612871903 |